How to release a simple program

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Published on 2010-03-08T06:32:32Z Indexed on 2010/03/08 6:36 UTC
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What is the best practice for releasing a simple software? Suppose I created a very small simple and useful program or a tool and would like to share it with everyone by uploading it to my web-site.

  1. Do I need a license and which one? (I read http://www.gnu.org/ and http://www.fsf.org/ but still cannot decide - there are too many of them.)
  2. Do I need to put somewhere a copyright and what is the basic principles of creating "Copyright" string?
  3. How can I make a user, who is going to download and install my program, to believe that my program doesn't contain viruses or a malicious code?

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